Netherlands: There were sensational occasions when a terminally ill zoo worker who desired to see the inmates was brought to the zoo for the last time. He got a goodbye kiss from a giraffe of the zoo.
The 54-year-old mentally handicapped man named Mario had worked as a cleaner at the Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands for about 25 years. After being diagnosed as seriously ill, he expressed his desire to visit the zoo and say goodbye to the animals he cared.
When Mario was brought to the zoo on a stretcher by the Dutch Ambulance Wish Foundation, one of the zoo’s giraffes reached down and nuzzled Mario offering him a goodbye kiss.

Video on the dying Zoo worker