I still think he was helped along by his wife, who had been in talks with POTUS about an '"At Large" ambassadorship for her which she accepted and then immediately resigned from after No name announced is cancer
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/337530-cindy-mccain-to-get-role-in-trump-state-department-report
Knowing POTUS meets with people secretly to lay out the evidence against them and lay down their options, I don't think their discussions were about a position for her, or at least, not a permanent position.
Maybe she did her job as an ambassador to stop human trafficking by 'departing' her husband from this world.
could be.
and maybe why she needed to be flanked by the generals at the funeral.
It wasn't no names coffin that was being protected. It was cindy that needed protection for the cabal.