i always had this exact problem with people dying on Star Trek. Wouldn’t a person’s most recent “pattern” be stored in the Enterprise computer? Why wouldn’t they just recreate him from that pattern?
Because you would be creating matter from nothing.
In the teleportation of something there’s no net gain or loss of the subject matter.
The problem with living things, particularly human and a soul commensurate, the possibility exists that to retain the soul the exact state of every atom constituting the body need be recorded, transmitted and reconstituted without error.
Now, I say that speculatively. It could be that the soul readily identifies with its living body and as soon as a body was rematerialized its all “oh, there’s my meat sack!” And hops back in right away. But we’re talking soul here so it’s going to take some major balls to experiment with something like this.