If you had a terminal disease, would you still floss?

In My Humble Opinion
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I would still floss as often as I do now, which is about twice a week.

I don’t feel any benefit from flossing and it makes no difference to my breath or appearance. Those are not the reasons I’d floss.

I would still floss because doctors are sometimes wrong. What if six months actually turns into a year, or a decade? Or if there’s an experimental drug trial that cures the disease for good? For me, continuing to floss would be my statement to myself and the world that I’m not resigned to just six months, no matter what the experts say.

22

I thought it was paying for sex with apes. I’ve noticed they never offer to pay!

23

Waxed or unwaxed?

24

Floss?

25

I’d still floss, for much the same reason that I’d continue to wipe my ass in the same circumstances- not doing either is nasty.

26

Well, not if I was dying of gum cancer. Otherwise sure, continuing to play the mouth harp would seem oddly appropriate.

27

This.

28

Hell, I’d even make a special trip to Montana so I could get the very best dental floss, fresh from the fields.

29

Six months to live? Whoo-hoo! No more oil changes for me!

30

The ones you know don’t? You’re hanging around with the wrong apes.

31

Well, what did you think the bananas are for? Wait–don’t answer that.

I’d probably keep doing it. I’ve had several friends and family members who were told they had N months to live, and ended up living N + MANY months.

Drinking, however… there’s a liquor store down at the corner that’d be getting my business again. Oh, yes…

Roger Rabbit: But the liquor store guy? He knew!

32

I’d floss when it occurred to me, like I do now, which is generally two to three times a week.

And because this is the Dope: Wild Chimpanzees Exchange Meat for Sex on a Long-Term Basis.

33

Not only wouldn’t I floss, there would be a lot of other things I would let go. I would eat (if I could) whatever and however much I wanted. I remember my brother with a fatal brain tumor spending an hour on a treadmill two months before he died. Not for me. Back when I had stopped smoking, I used to daydream that I had 6 months to live and I could start smoking again. After about ten years, that daydream went away. Now the thought is revolting.

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And zoos.

35

Why add gingivitis to whatever is killing me? I would continue to floss.

36

I would continue to floss to get the popcorn kernels unstuck because my diet would consist of buttered popcorn and candy bars and cookies. And I’d start smoking again but that’s another thread.

37

When my dad was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, one of the things he said was that he was never going to the dentist again. :slight_smile:

38

Yes, because not flossing is just gross.

39

And because that is [the Onion](Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam).

40

I personally wouldn’t unless i couldn’t like the feeling of tarter on my teeth, but I took care of a Sister who had a short time to live and until she could no longer floss she did.