Suppose I had a machine that could record the position and velocity of ever atom in your body to the limit Mr. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle allows, and then I blew up your body with an H bomb. I now use that information and different atoms to assemble another body. Would you have died in that H Bomb blast?

I don’t know you but I can say that it is virtually certain that you will say yes you are dead because that is what virtually everybody says, even those who pride themselves for unconventional views and for thinking outside of the box. They say that because they believe in the soul, they won’t admit it of course, not even to themselves, and it’s true they do renounce the word “soul”, but the trouble is they just can’t renounce the idea of a soul. I can.

As for why that idea will be lethal after the Singularity; if the Jupiter Brains that exist at that point decide to let you live it certainly won’t be at the same level as their hardware, they would be far too squeamish for that and for good reason, it would be like letting a monkey run around an operating room. If they let you live it will be as an upload, if you refuse that because you think it would be the equivalent to death then your superstition will have killed you. It wouldn’t be the first time a superstition has proven lethal.