Strangers organise funeral for Arpad Kiss, 82, who died alone on the streets of Darwin

The 82-year-old man’s funeral service was small and simple, attended by about a dozen people who were both strangers and the last people he encountered.

Those who went said it was a strange but deeply moving experience: gathering to farewell someone they had never really met.

On a humid day early in November last year, an elderly man walked into a St Vincent de Paul op shop in Darwin and asked the people volunteering there to call an ambulance.

Some of the staff had undertaken first aid training and it became clear the man was seriously…