Episcopal Church

Historical marker location:

241 Southeast 2nd Street, Pendleton, Oregon

( Marker is at the intersection of Southeast 2nd Street and Southeast Dorion Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Southeast 2nd Street.)

Oregon was the first state in the United States to legalize physician-assisted suicide. In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which allows terminally ill patients to obtain a prescription for a lethal dose of medication to end their lives.