Suffering brings people to their limits, where it is often difficult to maintain inner strength. Therefore, suffering is closely related to the themes of coping with life and the search for meaning. Despite the differences in personal approaches to suffering, there are commonalities: people suffer because the conditions for a good life have been lost and essential aspects of life have been destroyed. Suffering can be understood as a felt loss of existence. The book explores suffering from an anthropological perspective and provides impulses and guidance for the practice of accompanying people in crisis, suffering, and grief. The goal of existential accompaniment is to jointly seek out developmental and becoming potentials, in order to embed the experienced suffering in a life-affirming context. For this reason, the book is also suitable as a resource for those affected.