The Lover's Heart

Factual Questions
1

I seem to remember hearing an account–probably in the Book of Lists–where one person in a couple needed a transplant to live, something major like a heart, liver, or lung, and the other person just happens to die and provides a good match.
Has anything of this nature* actually *occurred, or was this just poetic license?

Aside: this scenario was the subject of a song by Buck Dharma on his “Flat Out” album as well. At least, that was what the donee had assumed.

2

A very unlikey situation to find a viable match in such a manner. Perhaps in ‘Pulp Fiction’ but not in real life.

3

There was the case of Teresa Dravk, who needed a kidney transplant, and just happened to meet someone on the Internet with the right type. Or so the story goes. [But he didn’t have to tie for her to receive the kidney.]