Article 14

In the fourteenth article, the question is raised whether if there were no starlight nor motion of the celestial bodies, all corruptible animals would instantaneously perish.

My opinion about this was related above. (See article 11.) For death comes about by separation of the soul from the body, which does not occur except by the body departing from its own natural disposition, which cannot be entirely instantaneous. Its cause and beginning, however, can be in an instant.