I don’t think what you are describing is pure teleportation. The beam is still moving through space, right? Basically you are just cutting the cost and complication of having a spaceship carrying things. And it would still be “slow” in that the beam is going close to the speed of light, or does the beam go faster than light?
Like I said, if animals(no soul) can do it but people(soul) arrive dead that might be attributed to divorcing the soul from the body. Or God could allow the soul to travel with the beam.
It is true we know little about the Universe. We don’t even know if our constant, reliable rules of nature apply everywhere in it or not. It could be that at some point before they would become galacticly visible to our crude instruments all intelligent life does some experiment that completely destroys them, and that is why we haven’t seen anyone else so far.
Freegards
Animals have souls. They are living beings too. Their souls simply are not immortal, and do not allow intentional action.
Everything that is alive has a soul, otherwise, we'd have a case of matter in self-motion. Matter does not move on its own (Newton's First Law), but must have motion imparted to it by an outside actor. In the case of living things, this outside actor is God, who imparts life and motion via the joining of the soul (anima - the animating principal of living things) to the body (otherwise inert matter).