On Sunday 12 August [1661], while preaching at the Savoy, he was seized with typhus fever, and died at his new lodgings in Covent Garden on 16 August.
Reality has both a beginning and an end because it is bounded within time-space, but the fundamental quantum of energy and its associated consciousness is eternal.
It accounts for the organization of the energy patterns which constitute our physical body but is distinctly separate from and superior to it.