If he had lived no one would trust him, and he would still want to get the ring as it had got a hold over him.
But his death saved him from having to put up with the pain of constantly wanting the ring. It also in a way saved his soul. He gave up his life to save Merry and Pippin cancelling out the harm he had done by trying to take the ring
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For him that is pitiless, the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning - of Melkor before his final downfall
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