Ignition vs emergency shutoff?

This is the second can am ATV I have owned and both suggest in the manual to shut the ATV down using the emergency shutoff switch instead of the ignition key. Nobody I know does it this way and when I asked the dealer about it last week when I purchased my new outlander 850, he said he had never heard of that. He has always used the key and left the shutoff switch on. Can anyone explain why can am suggests to use the shutoff switch vs the ignition to turn off the ATV.