That's a misunderstanding of evolution.

Adaptability has nothing to necessarily do with 'want.'

Something could only seek to be as helpful as possible to other beings and as long as sufficiently beneficial that it is protected and cared for by those others, it will do quite well and arguably much better than an alternative that 'wants' to live very much but attempts to accomplish that through competition with others.

Arguably if the plover was more fearful of death it might never have found a niche eating from between the teeth of crocodiles and established symbiosis with a very convenient evolutionary partner, for example.