朋友 再見 (Giraffe’s touching goodbye to dying worker)

A giraffe at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo says goodbye to Mario.  Photo: Stitching Ambulance Wens Netherlands.  Source : Supplied

動物園清潔工，臨死前要向他畢生照顧的長頸鹿說再見。動物有情，似是有知。 

54歲的Mario 是弱智人士，一生與動物為伍，每天在荷蘭的動物園勤拂掃，就是為了他鍾愛的動物有一個清潔舒適的家。 

Mario患上末期癌症，終日在醫院等待死亡，心頭眉頭就只有往昔每日相處的動物，只是，虛弱的Mario已是半步走不得。臨死前他提出一個特別的要求，希望可以與畢生共渡時光的動物說再見，專協助臨終病人達成遺願的組織，聽到他的聲音。 

這一天，Mario躺在病床上，被推到動物園的長頸鹿園，靜靜的等。動物有靈，一隻長頸鹿走近，輕輕的舔着他吻別。 

「很奇妙，動物都認得他，覺得他有不妥。」送Mario到動物園的Ambulance Wish Foundation創辦人 Kees Veldboer看到這一刻，十分感動，「他霎時整個人都容光煥發。」 

Mario與長頸鹿最後一吻後，與其他動物園員工話別，才重回醫院等待那一天。

 

A Dying Cancer patient who worked at a Dutch zoo his whole life has said a final goodbye to the animal. 

The 54-year-old man, identified only as Mario, was approaching by a loving giraffe as he lay in his hospital bed wheeled into Rotterdam’s Diergaarab Blijdrop zoo. 

“You could see him totally lifht up.” Kees Veldboer, founder and Director of Ambulance wish Foundation, told a Dutch newspaper, Algemeen Dagblad. 

“It’s very special to see that those animals recognise him, and sense that he isn’t doing well.” he said. 

Mario has a mental disability and has worked as a maintenance man at the zoo for most of his life. 

He later bid farewell to his colleagues, the paper reported.