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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
So you think Sauron was broken by Isildur cutting his finger off as opposed to Elendil and Gilgalad stabbing him all over his body?
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We have no evidence of such thing happening. We don't really know that Elendil and Gil-Galad stabbed him all over
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If Isildur took Sauron's ring then Sauron would just take it back, only in this case he couldn't because he was already dead. 
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Already said, he didn't need to be dead, just incapacitated. And you don't even know that, perhaps the shock of loosing the Ring did destroy his Physical body. After all we know that for the Ainur it is a strain to have a body, perhaps when he lost the Ring he lost the ability to mantain his physical form (until he was able to re-group his strenght and come back again)
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Hypothetical situation: Imagine Sauron with the One Ring was going about on Mount Doom and Frodo, say, snuck up and pinched it off his finger—would that have killed him? Of course not, and the situations aren't too different. Are they?
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How do you know? perhaps it would have, if as I said before, by loosing the Ring he momentarily lost the ability of having a physical form it would have "killed" him indeed. Note that he wasn't really dead, he just lost his physical form.