Tributes have been paid to a Fife student who died just one week after finishing his university studies.
Lewis Greig, 21, from Kirkcaldy, a fourth year psychology student at St Andrews University, passed away in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on Friday following a sudden illness.
The former Balwearie High School pupil had been kept alive by a life support machine since being admitted to the hospital four days earlier.
The cause of his death is not known.
In a letter circulated to university staff and students, principal Louise Richardson described Mr Greig as a “bright student”.
She said: “I am so sorry to have to inform you of the sudden death of one of our students. Lewis Greig, a fourth year student in psychology, died in Ninewells Hospital early on Saturday morning. He was 21 years old.
“Lewis had just submitted his final year dissertation last Monday when he took ill. He was attended by paramedics and taken to hospital in Dundee but never recovered.
“I know that news of Lewis’s tragic death has come as a great shock to our community, to all who knew him and to residents of Agnes Blackadder Hall, where he lived.
“His family and friends have lost a gregarious, compassionate, tolerant, open-minded and affectionate young man.”
Understood to have been a keen weightlifter and with a strong interest in music, news of Mr Greig’s death was broken to friends by his sister Hollie, a student at Edinburgh University, via Facebook.
She said: “As some of you know for the past few days my irrevocably beautiful brother has been kept alive on a life support machine.
“Unfortunately, the machine had to be turned off and Lewis peacefully passed away surrounded by myself and our parents.”
Arrangements for Mr Greig’s funeral have not yet been announced.