The Influence of Nietzsche on Existentialism

A lot of philosophers took the idea of the death of God and ran with it to kind of try to make their own answer. I think they're influenced by him in as much as they both start with the idea of, well, there is no God who's giving us an objective morality or an anchoring in the world. And this implies this kind of horrifying human freedom, right? This fundamental freedom that is found within our very being and our relationship to the universe around us. It's sort of the thing that existentialism is wrestling with.