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** The JodiPicoult novel ''My Sister's Keeper'' features the exact same situation.

* ''CSINY'' 'Live And Let Die' is basically this trope, with the variant that it was the doctor's wife needing the liver. He orchestrates a medical helecoptor hijacking and kills several people in the process. Mac is naturally not amused, especially recalling his own pain and loss and talks on the fact that the guy will likely be in prison while his wife dies.

* In one episode of ''BabylonFive'' Londo ends up needing a blood transfusion, but has a very rare blood type. He is saved by a transfusion from his wife Timov (Who stated that blood type was the ''only'' thing they had in common). While she gets Dr Franklin to promise to not say where the blood came from, the novels about Londo's [[spoiler:reign as Emperor]] state that he eventually figured it out.
* On {{Leverage}}, The Cross My Heart Job features a rich businessman who attempted to steal a heart that was intended to be transplanted for a teenage boy. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the boy, [[BerserkButton Nate and his team find out about this]] and are able to recover the heart. It is interesting due to the limited amount of time that the team has to work with.

* In TokyoBabylon, Yuya, a little boy, had an unidentified kidney disorder, and even though his condition kept worsening to the point of emergency surgery he was ''still'' on the waiting list. Subaru eventually decides to donate his own kidney to Yuya. [[spoiler:He arrives just after Yuya's taken to emergency surgery again, and Yuya's unnamed mother flips out and attacks him. Seishiro blocks the knife, and Subaru is too upset to do anything. The plotline is never resolved.]]

* ''BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'', where Mr Freeze's wife will die without an organ transplant. Notably, they get through the entire movie without ever specifying which organ it is that she needs; it's implied that she needs several.

* http://www.theninhotline.net/news/#1242872343

* Series/{{House}}. Oh so many times. There's an episode where a father kills himself to give one of his organs to his son, another where a patient has to find a kidney on the black market, and another where they have a brain-dead donor who'd be perfect for a man with an ailing heart -- they just have to figure out what was wrong with her so that the donor board will sign off on it.

* {{House}}. Oh so many times. There's an episode where a father kills himself to give one of his organs to his son, another where a patient has to find a kidney on the black market, and another where they have a brain-dead donor who'd be perfect for a man with an ailing heart -- they just have to figure out what was wrong with her so that the donor board will sign off on it.

* On {{Leverage}}, The Cross My Heart Job features a rich businessman who attempted to steal a heart that was intended to be transplanted for a teenage boy. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the boy, [[BeserkButton Nate and his team find out about this]] and are able to recover the heart. It is interesting due to the limited amount of time that the team has to work with.

* [[VentureBrothers Dr. Venture]] finds himself in need of two kidneys after he wakes up in a tubful of ice and a [[OrganTheft kidney-shaped set of stitches]] in his back. (He ends up taking [[spoiler: one from each of his sons, who have been cloned multiple times because each keeps dying in some stupid fashion]].

* ''AngelBeats'' an anime set in purgatory, more or less, reveals in episode nine that [[spoiler:just moments before Otonashi died he signed a donor card, in the hopes his death wouldn't be in vain.]]

* [[spoiler: Adorea]] of FrankenFran has this in her backstory: she and her boyfriend had life-threatening illnesses, and they each promised they would give their organs to the other. [[spoiler: The boyfriend died first, so Fran's father donated the organs to Adorea before working his magic on the boyfriend to revive him; the callous boyfriend demanded the organs back, turning Adorea into the...uh..."person" that she is now.]]

* There's an episode of LawAndOrder where the villain is giving away his organs to people he feels deserve it, and killing them (in such a way that the organ can be transplanted into someone else) if they stop whatever project or behavior he feels made them deserve it. In the end [[spoiler: they get him to confess in exchange for allowing him to continue donating his organs while in prison]].

* EarthFinalConflict: Liam Kincaid anonymously donates an organ to Ronald Sandoval.

* ''[[GreysAnatomy Grey's Anatomy]]'', many times. The most noteworthy is Denny Duval, who fell in love with Izzy and was about to get a donor heart when the donor died, meaning that there was only one heart left at that hospital, and it was going to go to another person. Izzy [[spoiler: cut his LVAD wire, purposefully worsening his health to bump him up the list.]] He survived and got the transplant, but [[spoiler: died later of a stroke.]]

* One of those sidebar stories in the Reader's Digest tells the tale of a woman who received a heart transplant and eventually struck up a romance with the grieving widower.

* Scifi variant: When R2D2 returns from the attack on the Death Star with some structural damage, C3PO offers to donate any of his circuits or gears that might be used to repair his companion. Awwww....

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* When Alanzo Mourning needed a new kidney, he got countless offers from his fans to get a new kidney; Mourning told them to register their names with the Red Cross instead, and is currently lobbying for legislation to make it easier for others to get new kidneys.
* http://www.theninhotline.net/news/#1242872343
* One of those sidebar stories in the Reader's Digest tells the tale of a woman who received a heart transplant and eventually struck up a romance with the grieving widower.

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* This happens in {{Awake}} when [[spoiler: Clay's mother kills herself in the hospital waiting room to assure he gets a healthy heart.]]

*** This episode may have contributed to the persistance of the "kidney theft" urban legend.
* This happens in the movie {{Awake}} when [[spoiler: Clay's mother kills herself in the hospital waiting room to assure he gets a healthy heart.]]

* ''BatmanAndMisterFreezeSubZero'', where Mr Freeze's wife will die without an organ transplant. Notably, they get through the entire movie without ever specifying which organ it is that she needs; it's implied that she needs several organs transplanted.

* [[spoiler: Adorea]] of FrankenFran has this in her backstory: she and her boyfriend had life-threatening illnesses, and they each promised they would give their organs to the other. [[spoiler: The boyfriend died first, so Fran's father donated the organs to Adorea; the callous boyfriend demanded the organs back, turning Adorea into the...uh..."person" that she is now.]]

* One of the murderers in TheKindaichiCaseFiles has trying to find a matching kidney for his sick daughter in his backstory.