So say you had six months to live. Would you still floss?
Me, I’d quit in a heartbeat (unless, of course, I had something stuck up there that was driving me nuts). In fact, I’d go so far as to say that not having to floss would be one of the biggest dividends of being terminal.
But maybe there are people here who *like *flossing, who live to floss, so to speak.
Fellow Dopers, how do you plead?
Yes, because my teeth feel gross when I don’t. I would not want to spend the last 6 mos of my life feeling gross (or grosser than I had to).
I’m with you, Sal, only if there was something stuck there. F.U. teeth!
This. I like my nice, clean, regularly flossed teeth. 
<— see how pearly white they are?
Same thing here.
I feel good when if am flossed and brush. The problem is having enough energy to do it when sick and dying.
Yes. I’d rather not smell dead until I am.
Ok…I already don’t floss. Who needs teef when there’s grits in the world?
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Haha 
I like your use of the smiley.
Me, I probably would floss - I’m so used to doing it, and like others have mentioned upthread, I’d probably feel a little gross if I didn’t.
I don’t floss only to improve dental hygiene.
I floss because I don’t want to be part of the people who don’t floss. These are people who want to floss. Know that its good for you. But can’t move a piece of string between their teeth for maybe two minutes per day. These people end up in the backwash of history.
In my final moments, I can’t end up like them.
mint floss or ordinary?
Flossing is what separates us from apes.
That and refrigerators.
I don’t floss now unless I need to rid myself of a pesky bit that lodged itself between two teeth. My teeth are so jammed together that my dentist can barely floss my teeth and it’s quite the ordeal. I recently had two cracked teeth repaired (unrelated to my lack of flossing) and she couldn’t even put the metal dam on either tooth and had to freehand the amalgam into the drilled out crack. The hygienist tried for 15 minutes to put the damn thing on both times. Even e-z glide floss is almost impossible to use.
I thought it was paying for sex.
Not only would I quit, I would burn all of my floss in a ceremonial fire.
I essentially never floss and that wouldn’t change. I hate it terribly and it has no benefits (for me personally) as far as I can tell.
(off topic warning)
Whenever I do floss, my teeth don’t feel cleaner. I think it is just a psychological effect when people that say their teeth “feel cleaner.”
Kind of like when your teeth feel cleaner after you brush. I think the brain has learned to make the made the connection of “my mouth taste like toothpaste” to “my mouth is clean.”
Why start now?
This is why I love the Dope.
Yes, I’d still floss. Bits of food (especially beef) get stuck between my dexter molars, and it’s uncomfortable.