Why not a Statesman-like funeral. He just "shed" tears at the black lady's funeral who had special pall bearers???
No comment on the choice to cremate, but I can on the diagnoses. Medically, this does not sound odd at all. Advanced cancer may lead to broken bones for a few different reasons. An obvious one is when the cancer metastasizes to a bone, so the bone is weakened and can easily break.