> There's no way for the stream of consciousness to continue after that point.

How can you know that? How can you even know what that means? :)

What is a stream of consciousness? Why wouldn't it be replicated along with the physical body? If it's separate from the physical body, why doesn't it move from the original body to the new one? If you know the answers to these questions: how do you know them?

We don't even know if there is such a thing as subjective "you". It's purely speculation. It seems humans would desperately like to think there is such a thing though.

constructing a copy, and destroying the original is not True teleportation. it is just mimicking teleporation. You are destroying the original just so you can call it teleportation? A true form of teleportation will be where the original goes from point A to B, without any copy. I am not saying it is possible, just saying that copying+destroying is not Teleportation

Well put! This is what I am most afraid of.

I tend to agree with your conclusion but I think the reasoning is still incredibly complex and not really sound. Sleep is an obvious and frequent discontinuation of consciousness.

Your stream of consciousness is interrupted when you sleep, so with that logic you technically die every night.

> But most people don't have that sort of objectivity.

Where did you get that idea from?

> If you're comfortable dying so that a copy of you can live the rest of your life, that's your business.

You will eventually die and (hopefully) a partial copy of you(children) will continue living on and you don't even have a choice about it.

There's a good science fiction story which has copying-type teleportation. Everybody recognizes it's being copied and then dying, so people are reluctant to use it. But many do, because it's required by their career.