> First being a separate subject is already merely a concept. Maybe, but being vaporized by an energy discharge is not merely a concept. > And second the ide

> First being a separate subject is already merely a concept. Maybe, but being vaporized by an energy discharge is not merely a concept. > And second the idea of dying carries all kind of baggage that clearly does not exist when being transported "clearly does not exist" ... in the make-up TV show which need this prop. The "no baggage" is a bit like how people in cults can commit mass suicide - believing they're not really dying, but rather being transported into heaven or something along those lines.