Thine ears needeth tuning kind sirs. King James of old is younger than the tongue with which I addresseth thee... Yet it matters not for another hast perished in the meanwhile!
In this fifth season past of Ye Olde Vampyr Journals of Overplotted Exhaustion, ancient and would be immortal doppleganger progenitor Silas did meeteth his sticky end at the fabulously coiffured (and ironic) hand of his facesake, one Stefan Salvatore. His spirit liveth on in various rating baiting ways but with his body both stabbed and buried we can sayeth with some certainty that he did indeed die in episode the seventh.