There are a number of other stories which address this as well. Sometimes without the trope you mention (L. Sprague de Kamp's The Gnarly Man[0]) And sometimes

There are a number of other stories which address this as well. Sometimes without the trope you mention (L. Sprague de Kamp's The Gnarly Man[0]) And sometimes with a variation on it (Heinlein's Methuselah's Children[1]), which he follows up with some of the same characters, but not invoking the trope (Time Enough for Love[2]). There are many others of course, those are just the ones that came off the top of my head. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love