I wanted to add that people don't want to break away from suffering because the sad truth is that the mind creates suffering and we believe we are our mind. So if there is no more suffering in the life, the mind made entity of the self, feels threatened that it will fade away, and then we wouldn't know who we are anymore. ( That's scary!)
For the mind to loose the control is the worst thing that can happen in the view of the mind, so all the excuses of why to just keep being unhappy carry on existing.