The 54-year-old maintenance worker， Mario， whos suffering from a terminal cancer， asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdams Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. In a heartbreaking scene， one of the giraffes approached the man， and appeared to give him a kiss goodbye.

“These animals recognised him， and felt that things arent going well with him，” Kees Veldboer， founder of the Ambulance Wish Foundation—which transported Mario to the zoo—told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. “It was a very special moment. You saw him beaming.”

Mario， whos mentally disabled， then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo， where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.

“It was very nice that we were able to work on the last wish of this man，” Mr Veldboer said.

動(dòng)物園一名54歲的清潔人員馬里奧因癌癥晚期即將離世。在病危之際，他要求醫(yī)院的工作人員將他的病床推到鹿特丹動(dòng)物園的長(zhǎng)頸鹿飼養(yǎng)地。結(jié)果發(fā)生了感人的一刻，一只長(zhǎng)頸鹿走到他的病床前，似乎給了他一個(gè)告別之吻。

“這些動(dòng)物們認(rèn)得他，而且感覺(jué)到了他的情況很糟糕，”“希望救護(hù)車(chē)基金會(huì)”的創(chuàng)始人Kees Veldboer在接受荷蘭《共同日?qǐng)?bào)》的采訪時(shí)表示，正是他將馬里奧送到動(dòng)物園?！斑@是非常特別的一刻。你可以看出他很幸福。”

大腦已經(jīng)不能正常工作的馬里奧，接著和他動(dòng)物園的同事一一道別。在這里他度過(guò)了成年生活的大部分時(shí)間。

Veldboer先生說(shuō)：“能夠滿足馬里奧最后的愿望，我們真的很開(kāi)心?！?