If Sharon's greatest legacy is his party, it's possible that he would put aside his well being and actually wish for his party to "benefit from a sympathy bonus".
I know that if Skybird's artificial survival helped in anyway defend Europe from the Islamic invasion, I would want Skybird to be kept in coma too, actually, I might aswell shoot him to "induce" the coma altogether. :rotfl:
(just in case someone missed it, this is a joke).