Jack London 
A Thousand Deaths 
Classic Short Story

A Thousand Deaths is about a young man who finds himself drowning in the ocean near a boat. He wakes again to find that he's not died, but instead has been hooked up to some mad scientist's contraption. The scientist helps him recover, befriends him, and kills him again. …and again. …and again. It is notable as his first work to be published by Jack London.