Is Sarang a complete idiot?

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Step into a Star Trek Teleporter. You are teleported to the planet below. Did you die?

No, you didn't, because the fictional transporter doesn't copy and destroy your being. Unless logic didn't factor into presenting that question and the only reason you said it was to give validation to fanciful thinking. That and a very loose definition of death. I get the idea of it and the morality of it. Giving a new version of humanity hope and a chance is a noble cause, but it's not magic.

That's why Catherine Chun was so calm about everything, because she new exactly who she was as far as identity went and what the project entailed for humanity as a whole. As well as what "she" (her copy) would get herself into.

Tl;dr: Copying != a special phantasmagorical event where you transcend your body. It appears that way for your clone, but you're shit out of luck.