M Simon The cessation of suffering is attainable.

What a remarkably selfish religion Buddhism is. In Christianity, suffering has been transformed by Christ’s death from something to avoid into a redemptive act:

Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church

This is why Churches don’t find it odd to have an instrument of brutal torture (a Roman cross) on their rooftoops as advertisement.