Can Buddhism end all suffering?

A Buddhist friend is conducting a survey in a secular Buddhist group. The survey asks this very interesting question: Do you believe that there is a way to completely end all suffering, indefinitely? In Buddhism, it is taught that the Noble Eightfold Path is a path that leads to the ending of all suffering. That sounds perhaps too good to be true, even to some Buddhists. How is it possible to end all suffering? Isn’t this an…