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There are fruits which "want" to be eaten. It's part of their life cycle. Intestinal parasites, too, although that's a bit more problematic.
Fruits are just parts of a plant, not whole living things. Similarly you might say that somatic cells "want" to die after a few divisions because otherwise they risk turning into a cancer.
Parasites that don't die when they are eaten obviously don't count for not wanting to be killed.
Take an apple off the tree, put it in the ground, there's a decent chance it'll grow into a new tree. How is that not a "whole living thing?" If some animal ate the apple first, derived metabolic benefits from the juicy part and shat out the seeds intact, that seed would be no less likely to grow. Possibly more so, with nutrient-rich excrement for it's initial load of fertilizer.
Fine. But these fruit don't want to be killed, just eaten.