We don't build monuments to the prophets until they are dead. When they are alive, we wrestle with them and how uncomfortable their words make us feel. Once they are gone, we can see their point without having to be poked by them. We are only willing to spar with them once they are incapacitated and unable to fight back in real time.
Some people genuinely have beautiful things to say right now, but lack the opportunity or the initiative to tell you. Some people do not have much to say about you, but your death will inspire magnanimity in them and beautiful things will be said, beautiful sentiments that never existed in their heads prior to your passing.
"Well done, good and faithful servant," is reserved for the dead. While those on earth may flatter your memory or finally feel compelled to say the kind things they've always thought, the kindest words one can hear are from Christ. In other words, the best things that can ever be said about you, can only be said about you after you are dead.
Eulogies are literally good words and they only arrive at the end of the story.
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