Suffering is living. Sometimes it is joyful; sometimes it is painful. It depends on your perception. You will not suffer when you are unconscious or dead.
Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.
