Originally posted by Leo Volont
The European Existentialists didn't already know what they were living for and tried to put together an intellectual package to give meaning to their lives, and then when they found they could come up with no truly compelling reason (people who can't prove God can hardly prove anything else that is important either) and so they nearly all committed suicide... either very directly, or slowly with alchohol and drugs. *

Maybe the Existentialists could have used a hobby.
Was there another group of European Existentialists I'm unaware of? Am I confused? Are you confused?
Camus: Died in a Car Crash. Kierkegaard, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Merleau Ponty, Heidegger all died of natural causes, none of them committing suicide or succumbing to drug or alcohol dependencies. Despite your insinuation that these were philosophers of despair, those of us who have actually read these European Existentialists will know that they wrote novels, plays, philosophical essays, formed resistances, pioneered feminism before it was adopted as a movement in the United States, advocated causes for opressed indivduals in Algeria and other countries. While, generally, most of them viewed the human condition as an absurdity, this doesn't mean they considered life meaningless. In fact, they embraced it as an opportunity for the individual to create meaning in one's life.

I suggest you do some reading into this before you spout such erroneous statements.