A new campaign aims to boost organ donation rates by encouraging the families of those who have died to respect their wishes.
Health service bosses said that in 15% of cases where someone has signed up to be a donor after death, relatives have vetoed it.
Last year in Scotland, 43 people died waiting for an organ transplant, with doctors believing they could have been helped if the families of five people on the donor register had not overturned their decision.
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