An eternal flame is a symbol to remember someone important, a specific event or a group of brave and noble people.

Examples include the following:

• The Bible commands that "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out", regarding the altar of the Tabernacle. (Leviticus 6:13, KJV)
• Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which has burned continuously since 1921, in memory of all who died in World War I;
• The square in downtown Decatur, Georgia, for the Korean War, World War II and the Vietnam War;
• King Center in Atlanta, Georgia for Martin Luther King;
• Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin;
• The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, in Arlington National Cemetery;
• The Pont de l’Alma Tunnel in Paris for Diana, Princess of Wales;
• Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honor those aboard flight 93 on 9-11;
• Ground Zero, New York and Honolulu, Hawaii to honor victims of 9-11.
• Madonna del Ghisallo, for all cyclists who have died.
• The Olympic Flame is a kind of eternal flame which is kept lit throughout the Olympic Games.
• Atop the Prayer Tower on the campus of ORU, which represents the baptism of the Holy Spirit

Eternal Flame is also a single released by The Bangles in 1989, and covered by Atomic Kitten in 2001.