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See my reply to cousin_it re: expense, but I think it's harder to find a match for organs than it is to find one for blood. So there's a good chance that if she were hit by a cement truck, nobody needing a transplant of any organs left intact would match her - but that's not something the operating doctors would be able to test for while she was actively on her way to bleeding out in the ICU.
Yes, it's a lot harder. For blood you need to match the blood type, and there are only 30 of them; a few of which are really common. For organs (living cells in general) you need to match the serotype out of thousands of combinations, and I'm not sure that's the only step.
It wouldn't kill you to admit that you didn't consider the relative value of blood and organs in the heat of improvising a joke ;)