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Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not?
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The tricky part here is that technically this means you could do/think/say something that the new you won't remember, before the death occurs.
Unless there's some sort of induced coma(right terminology?) involved.
Exactly. But that would be the price of that kind of transport. See the short story "Think like a dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly: that is exactly the situation. With very grim consecuences, in the particular case shown.