No article. Noncount and plural count nouns can be used without an article to make generalizations:

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

—Benjamin Franklin

Franklin refers not to a particular death or specific taxes but to death and taxes in general, so no article is used with death or with taxes.

English differs from many other languages that use the definite article to make generalizations. In English, a sentence like The ants live in colonies can refer only to particular, identifiable ants, not to ants in general.