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[DCEU] Why did people hate Superman when he was alive but love and mourn him when he was dead?

Throughout Dawn Of Justice, and I think during Man Of Steel(I haven't watched that one in a while), Superman was something of a pariah, people hating and fearing the power at his disposal and even the government themselves wanted to bring him in dead or alive. But in the Justice League movie, after his sacrifice against Doomsday, people started loving him, calling him a hero and a symbol of hope, even building enormous memorials in his honor. What gives? What made public opinion on him switch at all but the drop of a hat? Also, when Superman was revived in Justice League, did people go right back to hating his guts?
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Dying is always the best PR move, and in a heroic sacrifice against a giant monster? Plus the fact that he *died* proved that he wasn't a god, just a powerful man, which quelled a lot of people's fears and criticisms of him.