Some idea on your setup might be helpful. If your doing five goons that follow one dude running around and the main dude dies and they all stand looking silly. Also the hardware/software setup, if your running a team on a single box, each toon a single hardware device, etc.

I have my 'leader', or rally point character, set to the leader of the party. Then I have the toons focus the party leader, focus follow, and therefore ezassist off the that. The I have a command in the private channel that requests a leader me and the dead dude will give it up and then all the other toons will refocus. You could set this up with a KVM keystroke that was a broadcasted keystroke (xkeys, synergy, whatever) as well.