That's quite true. But it seems to fit a bit more with the Elven desire to preserve things, or it could also have been an inadvertent effect.
Perhaps Sauron would have also wanted the Rings to prolong the lives of their bearers so he could easily "turn" them into wraiths under his will.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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