j0ekerr: That would open up a whole can of worms of philosophical questions. If you're deconstructed, turned into information, then reconstructed at the other end of the device. Is it the same you, or a completely new one created from scratch that very instant, and the old you was killed in a molecule rending device. How does a soul travel without a body, and more importantly, is it morally acceptable to teleport me into Scarlett Johansson's bed while she's in it, naked?
I am certain that you would have to have Scarlett Johansson's permission, acceptance and invitation first, for that to be morally sound. :P
The teleportation process would cause an animated state of suspended animation, instead of traveling through Time, you would be traveling through Space at an accelerated rate, re-forming on the receiving end. From a technological and philosophical perspective, there would be concerns pertaining the efficiency and reliability of the machines and the process itself.
The moral and philosophical questions would revolve around that part where we are made into a pattern, and if that pattern could be altered (intentionally), or worse, your pattern could be saved and replicated again without your knowledge, in some other process.
As far as the Soul, it needs no vessel to inhabit or travel, once it is no longer needed by the host. And if we are lucky enough to value our souls, they might become eternal, though not in the popular notion of a Heaven, with wings and harps, but more like a memory intertwined within the fabric of the Universe, as a fossil is remembered in the geological record, except that with a soul, there might even be a possibility that it could take a living form again, through reincarnation.
After all, the Universe works in mysterious ways....