Lying in a hospital bed placed in the giraffe habitat at Rotterdam's Diergaarde Blijdorp, the 54-year-old man, identified as only Mario, waited for the animals to approach."You could see him totally light up," said Kees Veldboer, founder and director of Ambulance Wish Foundation, which arranged the farewell. "It's very special to see that those animals A dying cancer patient who worked at a Dutch zoo returned to say goodbye on Wednesday. recognize him, and sense that he isn't doing well," he told Rotterdam newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
Mario, who has a mental disability, spent nearly his entire life as a maintenance man at the zoo, according to the paper.
After the touching encounter, he then bid farewell to his colleagues.
May this precious man's last day be filled with hugs, love, and sloppy giraffe kisses!
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- Posted by kperrine
- Mar 23, 2014
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Readers Comments
Dennis wrote: Farewell my friend and may your journey to heaven with our lord god be a joyful one as the animals you have served well are also bidding goodbye to you. It might be lonely here on earth as you depart but its joyful in heaven as you arrive there. God bless you mario.
ashok mistry wrote: We wish him a heavenly farewell, which cannot be so better than animals who loved him and blessed him in his last stage, we can say he got the best farewell after serving his life in zoo by innocent animals whose blessing are no equal than god himself. God bless him in heaven.
Avriane wrote: Amazing how animals sense what is really needed at the right moment. They teach us an incredible lesson. This experience must have filled mario with such wonder and joy.
Rachna Rawat wrote: This is really amazing. Animals love and care is so selfless that they don't bother what problems the person is having. All they know and remember the love and care they were given by that person. I am sure mario will have a peaceful death as he got something undefinable in return from these animals.
Tom Trevathan wrote: All mano's disabilities will vanish in heaven and the love he gave and received will be magnified and enjoyed.
DeDe wrote: May god be waiting for you at heaven's door. Your leaving earth with goodbyes from the gentle animals who depend on the people serving at the zoo. May god keep you safe in your new home.
AZHAR KHAN wrote: Animal love is more then human. What i feel that. Animal never ever cheat human.
But in this case they never forget mario
But in this case they never forget mario
Preethi Prasanna wrote: May god bless your soul. :')
