Rachels concludes that: active euthanasia is always worse than passive euthanasia. passive euthanasia is always worse than active euthanasia. active euthanasia is always morally permissible. none of the above.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .