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[Star Trek] Is a transporter just essentially killing you and making a copy?

It turns you into molecules,gets the info,sends the info,and random molecules are taken and made into a new person based on that info.Right?
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Common consensus of the people having been transported is no, it doesn't kill you and remake you, you're the same person coming out that you were going in.  
On a deeper philosophical level, it depends on your definition of self.  It is certainly building you a new body with new molecules, but your body does that itself anyway, it just takes longer and we don't think of that process as resulting in a new person.  Still, doing it all at once and quickly might be important to you.  
If, on the other hand, your self is a particular pattern of energy and mass including a stream of consciousness and a collection of memories, then we have no problem.  The transporter preserves all that perfectly.  
Of course, things like the Riker incident do complicate matters and prevent us from having any real clear answers.  
Edit: A letter.