I was reading your email and have some information for you which maybe
of help. I have a book Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D Yalom
which discusses schizophrenia and death. As far as i know existential
psychotherapy deals a lot with death anxiety. Maybe it is out of date
for you but it is very interesting.

Also regarding information on the mind/brain, on ABC Radio National in
January the radio show All in the Mind discussed the mind/brain and
the Philosophers Zone in early February 2007 discussed consciousness,
there are transcripts on the website which you can access by going to
past programmes.

dorothea