Have you never lost someone you loved and looked at them in a casket?
They had to embalm him. He was given the highest honor to lye in repost in the capital!
He will not be a rotting corpse for that.
When all the blood is removed, everyone's skin gets much lighter in color.
One of the jobs of a mortician is to employ makeup to the body
It is very hard to make a corpse have the natural look it had when the person is alive.