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One indicator is whether the person was still alive when the building was named. Naming stuff after yourself when you're still alive (https://chanzuckerberg.com) is a good way to cheapen it.


No, naming it after yourself cheapens it, dead or alive. Someone else has to do it.


Kinda hard to name something after yourself when you're dead.


It’s easier - I don’t need my stuff and the proceeds from selling it can pay for really big letters on the building.


You could add it to your will.

"From the time of my death, my compound that I leave to my yorkie shalt be known forever as rhiz(h)ome"




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