 As he put it, he could have “done Normalization the favor of dying when [he] was at the peak of [his] reputation and effectiveness.” (Wolfensberger, 1999,  p. 97)

Dr. Wolfensberger self-published a small monograph on the topic entitled "The New Genocide of Handicapped & Afflicted People"—self-published because no other  publisher would take it on.He also recognized that hospitals had become very risky places for devalued people, for several reasons